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nawk did it, thank you Thank to all the replies!

Thank you for the quick replies. These all worked on my Ubuntu machine however none work on my Solaris system, must be a syntax difference.

Need help figuring out how to merge data from a file. I have a large txt file with some data that needs to be merged from separate lines into one line.

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Thank you both for reply's and bare with me I want to make sure I understand so I don't have ask again.

{A[$1]=$2; next}

Is putting column 1 of file 2 in an array and make it variable $2?...

I have looked through several threads regarding merging files with awk and attempted using join however have been unsuccessful likely as I do not fully understand awk.
What I am attempting is to...